Example sentences of "[vb pp] an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush was said to have addressed an appeal to Mengistu in April and to Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka on May 21 concerning the Ethiopian Jews , and press reports focused on the role of US envoy Rudy Boschwitz . |
| 2 | The government 's latest programme also included an end to the indexation of wages to inflation , and a cut in the average import tariff from 22 per cent to 9.4 per cent , designed to improve the productivity and competitiveness of local industry . |
| 3 | However , on Aug. 16 the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that Mikhail Mokretsov , 19 , who had hijacked an airliner to Stockholm on July 5 , should stand trial in Sweden ( he had attempted suicide while in custody , and had been pronounced mentally unfit to face extradition ) . |
| 4 | This column has already reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and now it gives me pleasure to report another addition at the Dodge Chemical Company — but this time its not another birth , it is the news that Adrian Haler 's daughter , Patricia Lewis joined the company on August 17th . |
| 5 | But what if , when the testator had instituted an heir to a share , he then wrote ‘ I ask , Lucius Titius , that for your share you be content with 100 gold pieces ’ ? |
| 6 | Indeed , Silicon Graphics is understood to have added an instruction to the Mips architecture for TFP , allowing multiplication and addition functions to be performed in a single batch rather than as separate operations , speeding floating point throughput . |
| 7 | Their comprehensive examination of the likely social and economic impact of microelectronics technology concluded that with computerisation there had come an end to the creation of jobs in services and a standstill in the industrial labour force , the only industrial jobs created from now being in small and medium-sized businesses . |
| 8 | A wildlife rescue centre has cancelled an invitation to Princess Michael of Kent because she hunts . |
| 9 | Last week 's article ‘ What 's wrong with German Science ’ ( p 277 ) should have contained an acknowledgement to the generous help of Dr Christoph Schneider now at the Wissenschaftsrat ( Science Council ) in Köln . |
| 10 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 11 | This view , however , may be to perceive only as a weakness within the British scene something which may more interestingly be considered an incentive to , even a necessary condition of , modernist and postmodernist writing generally . |
| 12 | She had never considered an alternative to Yelton . |
| 13 | Based on these findings the Doppler controlled injection treatment of Dieulafoy 's disease could be considered an alternative to surgery . |
| 14 | ( According to the so-called " linking rule " , a spell of employment lasting less than this time is considered an interruption to a single spell of unemployment , whilst a spell of employment lasting longer than this but then coming to an end opens up a new spell of unemployment . ) |
| 15 | The Law Commission has recommended an end to quickie divorces and more effort to save marriages from break up . |
| 16 | Rhodesia had long presented an affront to Ghana and other Black African states , yet Nkrumah still valued the Commonwealth connection sufficiently to support Britain 's compromise proposals . |
| 17 | However , his allegiance to the cause and principles of international modernism never comprehended an allegiance to Ezra Pound as a modernist master . |
| 18 | He had recently suffered an injury to his knee and was preparing to be discharged . |
| 19 | WARTIME pilot Edgar Raspison has written an apology to the people of Ludlow , Shropshire , for cutting off their electricity when he crashed into power lines 49 years ago . |
| 20 | Baker ( 1982 ) has also written an introduction to the whole subject of migration in animals . |
| 21 | She realized she had missed an opportunity to needle Brian and went on , ‘ Tim says drop-outs are the fault of a cynical and uncompassionate administration who 're buggered if they 're going to waste good money on a load of lunatics , so they 've slung them out and turned the asylums into conference centres for advertising agencies . ’ |
| 22 | The old Countryside Commission for Scotland , which became part of Scottish natural Heritage in April , has already lodged an objection to the new development . |
| 23 | The applicant has lodged an appeal to the Secretary of State against this decision . |
| 24 | WORLD Cup organisers have granted an amnesty to players who received yellow cards for fouls and other offences during qualifying matches . |
| 25 | WORLD Cup organisers have granted an amnesty to players who received yellow cards for fouls and other offences during qualifying matches . |
| 26 | Voice of Ethiopia radio , broadcasting from Addis Abada on Sept. 25 , stated that on that day the government had granted an amnesty to 120 political prisoners in Asmara ; it had recently ordered the release of 500 prisoners in Eritrea . |
| 27 | In each case the Commission may have rejected the complaint and may also have granted an exemption to the company in respect of the conduct of which complaint has been made . |
| 28 | Police were twice granted an extension to the time allowed for questioning . |
| 29 | He had his answer to questions about the events of that morning but he had not prepared an answer to any others . |
| 30 | In the 1970s in America ‘ urban renewal ’ was discredited as President Nixon unilaterally proclaimed an end to the urban crisis , in Britain as part of the grand failures of state social engineering against which Thatcherism was set . |